Build-from-Skratch botnet software being sold. top 10 bots being used.

Botnets these days are extremely sophisticated and the groups/inidividuals responsible are pretty fucking intelligent. We bring you this information as research to feed our own curiosity.

List of Top 10 botnets and their impacts:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=8599

HoneyNet's papers on bots!

http://www.cert.org/reports/dsit_workshop.pdf

Pushdo/Cutwail botnet Case study:
http://us.trendmicro.com/imperia/md/content/us/pdf/threats/securitylibrary/study_of_pushdo.pdf

Zeus:
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/1055
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zeus-botnet-amazon-cloud-ec2.php

Rustock rootkit and spam bot (case study):
http://www.usenix.org/event/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/chiang/chiang_html/

Torpig:
http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/05/researchers-hijack-botnet-score-56000-passwords-in-an-hour.ars
research on torpig:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/%7Eseclab/projects/torpig/torpig.pdf

___early ddos tools___

Trinoo::
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/trinoo.analysis

Stacheldraht:
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/stacheldraht.analysis
http://old.honeynet.org/papers/enemy/ddos.txt
http://www.sans.org/security-resources/malwarefaq/stacheldraht.php

TFN:

http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/tfn.analysis

Shadow Server's stats on hack-Off and other ddos groups/nets

more to come, still trying to find where to "buy" this stuff
thx rex.